Selina Fisher Napanangka

Selina Fisher Napanangka , 2022

The subject of this work is Lappi Lappi, a rock hole near Lake Hazlett,about 90 km northwest of Lake Mackay In Western Australia.

ANONYME

Ceremonial plaque , c. 1950

This ceremonial plaque from the Wadeye region was one of the first works acquired by the ethnologist, lecturer, writer and film-maker Jacques Villeminot, who has devoted part of his life to the Australian Aborigines. He began collecting Aboriginal ob...

Sabrina Robertson NANGALA

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu , 2023

Sabrina Nangala Robertson was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is the daughter of the acclaimed Aboriginal arti...

Valerie Marshall Napanangka

Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) , 2021

Valerie Napanangka Marshall was born in Alice Springs Hospital. Shortly after her birth her parents moved first to Yuendumu and then to Nyirripi where Valerie now lives. Valerie attended Kormilda College, an Aboriginal boarding college in Darwin. Aft...

KONSTANTINA

Ken Done Loves Marri Badu , 2024

The "Ken Done Aboriginal Series" is organised around highly coloured palettes on which peaks of small white dots evoke the perspective of enchanted landscapes, drawn from the Dreamtime. "This series of works questions my practice of contemporary Abor...

Kathleen PETYARRE

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming , 2010

Regarded as one of the leading artists on the contemporary Aboriginal scene, Kathleen Petyarre's work depicts a topographical view of her clan territory, evoking the ancestral myth of the Arnkerrth Lizard Woman. At the centre of the canvas is the cer...

Peter MARALWANGA

Rainbow Serpent , c.1970

Like most Arnhem Land artists, Peter Maralwanga uses the rarrk motif, derived from Mardayin ceremonies, to adorn his creations. The Rainbow Serpent is the protector of the land, the people and the source of all life. It can also be a destructive powe...

ARTISTES D'ERUB ARTS

Beizam , 2019

This 'Beizam' ('shark' in Meriam, an Aboriginal language) represents the horror of death and destruction caused by abandoned fishing nets in the Torres Strait region of Australia. It was created by sewing salvaged fishing nets, or 'ghost nets', which...